Death Valley, Mesquite Dunes

Mesquite Dunes, iPhone4s Image

'When I looked at things for what they are I was fool enough to persist in my folly and found that each photograph was a mirror of my Self'........From the book Mirrors, Messages, Manifestations by Minor White

Death Valley, Mesquite Dunes

Mesquite Dunes, Death VAlley, iPhone4

'Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair'.....Khalil Gibran


The Last Pixel Show is planning a destination iPhone Photography Workshop in Death Valley next February. We wil be posting information on TheLastPixelShow.org shortly. We are, however, running a workshop next week in Napa, California with a few spots open. 

Caifornia Coast, iPhone4

California Coast, iPhone4

'I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love'......Red Cloud, Oglala Sioux Chief

Nature

Mesquite Dunes, Death Valley

Yesterday I was up and out at 5AM to start driving to Los Angeles for a few meetings. The sun was just rising and it dawned on me how much I really like being out there in beauty we call Mother Nature.  The best time of day for me - no one awake - no phone calls - just the deafening silence and quiet color. Of course I made a few images but mostly just enjoyed being able to see the day unfold....
 

Steps and Shadows

Steps and Shadows, San Diego, iPhone4

Marina Morning

Marina Morning, iPhone4

Sometimes simplicity is all that is necessary. I read somewhere the if it ain't grungy it is not happening...I totally disagree...so many ways to tell a story and pass on the sense of place when you clicked the shutter - or in this case tapped the screen - so many tools at our beck and call - not necessarily to be used on every image....enough said..

Death Valley

Mesquite Dunes - Death Valley

Working on several iPhone impressions of Death Valley and other locations...these iPhone images work well as color-scape impressions when printed small on the right substrate....my intent would be to hae several of these impressions in my upcoming show at the Renaissance Fine Art and Design Gallery in Carmel, Indiana. .

Racetrack Playa

Racetrack Playa, Death Valley

Hipstamatic Image from Racetrack Playa in Death Valley.....

Claremont Hotel

This one is from one year ago. I was in Oakland, California staying at the Claremont Hotel and Resort in Berkeley, California. The Claremont was built circa 1917 and is a fabulous old place, albeit in need of a renovation.

At any rate there are fabulous views of San Francisco on one side while the other side gives one a look at the architecture of the hotel.  As per my usual I photograph out of my hotel room window at sunrise and caught the image posted today. Of course I applied a bit of iPad image management as per below:

Photographed using the iPhone4
TrueHDR resting on the window sill
Photostudio
SketchmeeHD
Perfect Photo
Iris
Filterstorm

On the Road Again

Sunrise - Badwater Basin - Death Valley

Three hundred miles to go today - overslept and not much time to put much on the blog. Had enough time for this fairly straight image of Badwater Basin captured on the last Death Valley Trip....now to pack, get the free breakfast at the Hampton Inn and move on down the road.

iPhone4
truehdr on tripod
Filterstorm for image management

Death Valley Sunset

Dante's Peak, Death Valley

Iphone TrueHDR capture from last January reprocessed on the iPad 2 using:

Dynamic Light
Iris for Ipad
Filterstorm

Death Valley

Image captured with iPhone4 using TrueHDR
Sharpened in photoforge
local toning in Filterstorm

Learn how to create images like this with your iPhone. Check the class dates at the top left of this blog. For more information email harry@harrysandler.com. 

California Coast

California Coast

 It crossed my mind this morning that there are hundreds upon hundreds of applications for the iPhone to manipulate photgraphic images so I decided to post a fairly straight-ahead image today. Straight in that it is simply an HDR exposure with local tonal controls being applied in Filterstorm and sharpened in photoforge.

I am not saying that one should not use applications - what I am saying is find out what any particular app has to offer and use them creatively, not just to say how many images you stitched together or how many were used to create the image. Possibly the old adage comes into play here, KEEP IT SIMPLE.